@7e0cd0e2 @e4530301 nethack is one of those games I think more people should write about. I find its absence from various lists of all time important games sometimes befuddling. 

 @31be4dc7 @b8bd0c8f @b92dcc07 I was recently looking for the book Replay by Jordan Mechner. Searches online kept showing me mostly Jordans shoes from Nike. Even with terms like graphic novel in my search as well

(And don’t try to find the French edition while searching google etc from the US. The results are comically bad. I did finally find a business that sells French language books globally and specializes in it. But of course this amazing company isn’t in google shopping results etc. 

 @b05df304 @134318c2 Purdue wasn’t all that long ago. And there are almost certainly lots of companies still making and profiting highly from addictive substances. Even when they face backlash they continue in business (see Juul - yes they settled and paid hundreds of millions for targeting kids with their vape products and their products were banned by the FDA but eh are still legally on the market while the ban is worked out. But they also made over $2B last year) 

 @b05df304 @134318c2 not to mention fun companies like the ones in the 2018 FDA & FTC news release - who were selling unapproved opioid cessation products. 

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-ftc-warn-companies-selling-illegal-unapproved-opioid-cessation-products-using-deceptive-claims 

 @b05df304 @134318c2 well not exact but a few things that come close:

Original Coca-Cola contained cocaine, but in the years since they changed to use the same plant without the drug and to do so have lobbied for exemptions in every drug law and international treaty (see https://www.eater.com/23620802/cocaine-in-coca-cola-coke-recipe-gastropod)

Perdue Pharma - while the Sacklers who own it have basically negotiated their way out the company made highly addictive drugs, pushed them by claiming they weren’t and have been found highly liable